ProLife & Family Issues

I have some opinions on Fr. Pavone. I also have opinions on Pelosi. I think Pelosi is a fool and I think Fr. Pavone’s letter to her is brilliant and spot on! I just spent a week with Fr. Pavone in Rome with 150 pilgrims, leading the Priests for Life and Footprints of God pilgrimage [...]

Thoughts for Catholics impacted by the Boy Scouts of America membership policies, by Dr. Edward Peters Steve Ray’s Comments Below. Two groups of Catholics are directly impacted by the decision of the Boy Scouts of America to formally admit as scouts youth who profess a same-sex orientation, namely, Catholic sponsoring organizations and Catholic scouts and [...]

Ignoring U.S. bishops, the Catholic university will honor an abortion-rights supporter on Monday. By ANNE HENDERSHOTT (moving to Franciscan University of Steubenville in the Fall) At Boston College’s commencement ceremony on Monday, Cardinal Sean O’Malley won’t be in attendance. The leader of the Boston archdiocese announced on May 10 that he would not deliver his traditional graduation benediction at the Catholic school [...]

A nation that has given permission to parents to kill their children will not hesitate to give permission to children to kill their parents! There is an ironic justice in the way the world works. The selfish generation that decided to legalize killing “non-viable” human babies in the womb for their own convenience have dismissed [...]

BY BEN JOHNSON: Abortion Deaths, Fox News, Kermit Gosnell, Media Bias WASHINGTON, D.C., April 25, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The name of the upcoming Fox News one-hour documentary has been revealed. ”See No Evil – The Kermit Gosnell Murders” will air on Sunday, May 5 at 9 p.m. EDT on Fox News. The scheduled documentary will be the most in-depth coverage the “house [...]

Dear Friend (From CatholicVote.org): Over 17,000 people have signed our Open Letter to Archbishop Leonard thanking him for his humility and grace when half-naked feminists shouted obscenities and doused him with water while mocking the Blessed Mother. Can we include your name in support of Archbishop Leonard? We have received word that the Archbishop of Brussels is [...]

California Congresswoman, Rep. Jackie Speier CA (D), wants to federalize a state law to prohibit counseling to change a person’s sexual orientation. That doesn’t sound that extreme, but pedophilia is a sexual orientation according to this bill as well. “Republicans attempted to add an amendment specifying that, “pedophilia is not covered as an orientation.” However, [...]

A news item from today’s www.Zenit.com about homosexual “marriage” being approved in countries around the world. Soon it will be illegal to speak out against such “marriages.” Priests and pastors will be condemned for refusing to marry gay couples. No one will be able to refuse these same sex couples from adopting children. There are [...]

A primer on Church teaching regarding ‘same-sex marriage’ by Dr. Edward Peters (Steve Ray’s note: With the Supreme Court of the United States hearing the California case now, this is very much in the top of the news and could be a decision that has profound and lasting effects – like Row v. Wade. No matter [...]

Nancy Pelosi will not change on her own, by Canon Lawyer Dr. Edward Peters > (L’Osservatore Romano/AP) Pope Francis meets U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill, after his installation Mass at the Vatican on March 19, 2013. Communion time in St. Peter’s is, for the vast majority of lay persons (not heads [...]

Marching for Life: We Are the Pro-Life Generation A Student’s View (and news you won’t hear in the deceitful liberal media that dominates America!) By Makena Clawson WASHINGTON, D.C., January 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) – The giant and predominantly young crowd for the 2013 March for Life braved the cold and snow to protest Roe vs. Wade on [...]

From my good friend Dr. Ed Peters, Canon Lawyer at his site http://www.canonlawblog.wordpress.com. I am not expressing my own opinion here, simply relaying Dr. Peter’s assessment. An appropriate response to Gov. Cuomo’s latest abortion push by Dr. Edward Peters Two years ago I engaged in an extensive public discussion about whether New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, [...]